The set times and lineups have been posted, and I feel fortunate to be part of this amazing event and look forward to present some live fresh visual goodness over duration of the night. vdmo kstati (Live Visuals) – 9pm -5am… Epic set You can also pick up tickets @The pixie collective 374 high st Northcote. And for extra info www.facebook.com/localproducev4 SET TIMES 12:30 Crew 13:30 Juiced 14:30 Punkz on junk 16:00 Jigsaw(live) 17:00 Control Zeds (live) 18:00 S&M Project(alive) 19:00 Jubz 20:00 AudioUnit(live) 21:00 Free Standing Pickles(live) 22:00 Frump(live) 23:00 Endure(live) 00:00 Semantix(live) 1:00 Psilosquad(live) 2:00 Synapsys(live) 3:00 Lost(live) 4:00 Mindhertz(live) 5:00 Mechanism(live) 6:00 Quench(live) 7:00 Double Tech(live) 8:00 Terrafractyl(live) 9:00 Black Samurai(live) 10:00 Witchidi Grub(live) 11:00 Pspiral Life(live) 12:00 Autonomech(live) 13:00 Algenon(live) 14:00 Goosebumpz (live) 15:00 The Mollusk(live) 16:00 Circuit Bent(live) 17:00 Interpulse (alsolive)

Related show

• Artist: vdmo Kstati
• Date: Friday, December 10th 2010 - Saturday, December 11th 2010
• Time: 9:00pm
• City: vdmo Kstati in Melbourne
• Venue: Local Produce
• Country: Australia
• Admission: $60
• Age restrictions: All Ages
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The Annual Cairns White Party is back for 2010. brought to you by Silver Gem’s Deano and Venus, it is promising to be an amazing event with plenty of offer.

DJs
Miles
Dphyne
Battlekat
Suspekt
Jeremy J
Taesty Gecko
Woodsman
Legacy
Humble DJ
Waltek
Slytrance
Modifi
Kasey Taylor
Rekka
Positive Thought
Kiff

VJs

vdmo Kstati
Phosphorous

+ Lazers, Fire performances, Roving Characters, Drumming and more… Get yourself a ticket as they often sell out before the event, get some white outfit and have an amazing experience.

Some of the upcoming shows to be noted are:

Illumination 11 (Starseed) – Cairns @ AJ Hacket 23 October 2010
Elements (Halloween) – Brisbane- @ Barsoma 30th October 2010
Local Produce v4 – Victoria – 11th -12 December 2010
NYE Tribadelic – Victoria – 30th December 2010 – 1st January 2011

Ministry of Sound – Trance Nation is hitting Cairns on the 6th of August with a stellar line up of Artists featuring; TyDi, MarLo as well as Cairns locals NewWorldAudio, Gusto & Haadstool Heaven + vj vdmo Kstati.

Related show

• Artist: vdmo Kstati
• Date: Friday, August 6th 2010
• Time: 9:00pm
• City: vdmo Kstati in Cairns
• Venue: Gilligans
• Country: Australia
• Admission: $10
• Age restrictions: No Minors
• Notes: TyDi, MarLo, NewWorldAudio, Gusto, Haadstool Heaven + vj vdmo Kstati.
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“It is perfectly perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free. To be under no physical constraint and yet to be psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state or some private interest within the nation wants him to think feel and act. The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those that act under it or under constraint remain under the impression that they acting on they own initiative. The victim of mind manipulation does not know that he is a victim, to him the walls of his prison are invisible and he believes himself to be free.

That he is not free is apparent only to other people because is servitude is strictly objective.”

Flick Flock

http://www.baltanlaboratories.org/?p=1278

Flick Flock defines the meaning of the body and its linkage to the continuous transformation of the urban place and the way it can construct and deconstruct society. It is reflecting the interconnections of bodies and space, reshaping each other to form such an unbound relationship. Using stereoscopic and ambisonic 3D technology, Flick Flock recreates the digital urban space we are living in to allow us to immersively experience the role of the physical body as a vehicle of expression and knowledge.

Interacting with Flick Flock:
As soon as the body starts to move in the space, changes in the urban place take place. There are different potential changes that may take place (one at a time or simultaneously): (1) User is moving freely (i.e. the position of the hands and head are continuously moving in space wider apart from each other or in a certain direction) triggers the camera movement/panning and the lighting or changes of scene in the virtual environment (2) Within the flickering bubbles displayed in the sky, video captures of previous interactions from different people or the current user him/herself are displayed. These video captures try to play as much similar or opposed movement as possible from the pool of captured video. (3) The panning of the sound is also influenced by the movement of the body (e.g. movement to the left triggers a sound on the left speaker).

Technology:

Flick Flock will be displayed in full 3D with ambisonic sound and ideally requires the following:
- Stereoscopic (3D) glasses
- at least 7 speakers
- Soundcard that can accomodate at least 7 speakers.
- Projector
- Projection Wall (3.5m x 2m)
- High processing computer with at least dual core intel 2.5 GHZ, Nvidia series 8 card, more than 2 GB ram, 10GB remaining HD space.
- Firewire camera
- IR Light

Software:

- Blender
- Puredata
- OpenCV
- C++

FlickFlock from Jordi Puig on Vimeo.

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Bushlips goal is to support and promote home grown talent to the best of our ability and we aim to serve dancefloors all across this beautiful Earth with pelvic thrusting, hip-grinding music, artists and events.

Here are the crew we currently support….
The artists we have total faith in….
The choooon bringers + pixel movers…

Scruffy Goat
Backwards Man
Nick McMartin
Kashi
Scripted Dialects
Aaron Smiles
Rhythm Nectar
Drewan
DJ Chill-e
vdmo Kstati
Travis Welch
The Baron
Open Records
Suspekt
Woodsman
Mony
Bush Mechanic
Rob Zobec

If you are interested in what BushLips can do to help promote you as an artist, contact us on:

bushlipsmanagement@gmail.com

http://www.myspace.com/bushlipsmanagement

Pah-lease send us your tracks, we would love to hear/promote them

I heard about this Festival little while ago through my ongoing presence at Digger Street. As an option to support the festival in its actual sense, volunteering provided some amazing opportunity to come and meet large number of participants, organisers, visitors on the grounds and of course mingle among multi cultural volunteering crowd. While the festival was of Aboriginal nature, volunteering group was heavily consisting of large French nationals who either have lived in Australia for a while or had come here on a temporary working visa or holidays to experience Australia life for themselves. French weren’t the only ones who dominated diverse language scape; Germans, Spanish speaking tongues were among many that stood out also. There were Japanese and Swedish people too yet somehow they seemingly held more respect for the language that is dominating in this country, could this be an indication of something? I also happened to meet one lovely family from Moscow who were in Australia for the second time and truly were enjoying they time here and in particular the energy that North Queensland has. Was nice to meet them and catch up speaking Russian in our own Moscow accents,- I “still have it” they said! Yes!!

I had arrived with a group of volunteers on thursday and while majority of people were lazing about as to what is going on, my experience told me to take the fist opportunity and learn about current “Gate” system and learn as much about it. 7 hours later, I was tired doing pretty long shift yet had managed to build system which would handle most resolutions in matter of seconds and minutes. Few personal notes were made on how to run gates better eg. As anyone could imagine, whenever you deal with such event where participants come together to celebrate they own culture and tradition and they come in numbers, it would be nice to have lists for all of them known to those that work the gate for the shift from very start.

Following morning I did the gates as well, yet primarily most of the work at the ticket office was done by a combo of 2 Germans and 1 Belgium girl while I was greeting people and distributing the tickets to all visitors to Laura site in they respectable vehicles as per appropriate performance or observation.

After those long shifts I had completed my volunteering hours and was left to spend time seeing the festival grounds and catching up with friends, chatting up volunteers….etc Met some interesting people along the way, heard some stories, caught up with Jeremy’s family and his friend from Odessa/Sydney – Illya (Another Russian Speaking chelovek who has a great sense of humour and can play numerous musical instruments.) had spoken to some Traditional Land Owners, Questioned our Reality and Playfulness of Words in our Language, had a swim in the river, did yoga, had some cold, spokn to cute german bakpakkers abt fonts, ya! and generally had great experience.

I would also like to mention the Dance and Cultural Difference of the festival itself. As far as cultural Aboriginal traditions and customs are concerned, they presence is a lot more in tune with nature and animals while holding utter respect for its elders. This places itself in overall balance between one of the oldest cultures and one of the youngest cultures that makes up Australia population. The difference stands out very strongly.
Simplicity and Minimalism of the performance while adding encompassing dimensions to through the sound complexities of didgeridoo and sharp hits of a wooden sticks were heavily highlighted by vocal arrangement describing the definition of the action that was acted out by family troop living the re-enactment through the dance. Majority of dances had to do with Animal life, Interaction with Animal life, Food gathering, Sometimes that Food gathering has to do with Animal Life , Nature, Relation of Nature and Animals, People and Nature balance while also touching up on some elements of Trauma that at times was experienced, such as disputes, war, embracing masculinity and femininity and its balance and so on.

As the festival went on for a number of days, I had learned about most of dances and movements and some of the painted symbolism that they used. Understanding the dance fundamentals to some extend, its wasn’t hard to put most structural foundations together. This is just an observation point as far as comparing Aboriginal Native dancing styles with say complexities of Contemporary. Majority was very straight forward.

Food. Food for me at the festival was below the average. I had expected slightly larger variety for a 5000 people festival. While completely disregarding anything of that you find resembling food at Show ground festivities, there wasn’t much else left to choose, and so for most of the time I had drank tea to wash off the dust that was a plenty.

There was a strong emphasis on Government (lat: guvern = control ment= mind) organisations of all sorts that easily dominated throughout the grounds. Make up your own opinions on what you think of this.
Heard amazing sounds from this musical instrument called HANG. Very rare to some extend with only very few made worldwide and long wait list for those that want it. Sounds amazing!

Sunday afternoon I returned home and now in prep mode for Bush week.